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07-08-2004, 06:39 PM
Open Source Intelligence Resources for the Intelligence Professional
by The 434th Military Intelligence Detachment
... OSI is Open Source Information; that is, intelligence collected from open sources such as newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, books, reports, journals, photographs and other images. If is based on information collected from open sources. It is officially defined as follows:
Open source information for purposes of this directive is publicly available information (i.e., any member of the public could lawfully obtain the information by request or observation), as well as other unclassified information that has limited public distribution or access. Open source information also includes any information that may be used in an unclassified context without compromising national security or intelligence sources and methods. If the information is not publicly available, certain legal requirements relating to collection, retention, and dissemination may apply.
Of course, these sources have been used in the intelligence production process in the past. What is different now is a growing recognition that a more organized and focused effort must be made to take full advantage of open source materials ...
... ndexing/Retrieval Software
The documents retrieved from on-line searches are stored on the PC's local hard disk. To make full use of this information, it is important to be able to search these documents quickly.
A number of inexpensive (less than $500 retail price) programs are available which are designed to allow rapid searching of collections of documents stored on personal computers.
These programs generally employ one of two basic approaches to searching information on a computer. The simplest programs work like the search functions in a word processor. They scan each document looking for user-specified key words. These programs are very inexpensive (less than $50.00 retail price) but are slow when searching a large collection of documents.
More powerful programs begin by building an index containing a reference to every word in every document. New documents are added to the index when added to the database. Searches on an indexed database may require less than a few seconds even when thousands of documents are searched. These programs can be used to index locally generated correspondence and reports, documents retrieved from on-line systems and electronic mail messages ...
Full article (http://www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/usarinf2.html)
by The 434th Military Intelligence Detachment
... OSI is Open Source Information; that is, intelligence collected from open sources such as newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, books, reports, journals, photographs and other images. If is based on information collected from open sources. It is officially defined as follows:
Open source information for purposes of this directive is publicly available information (i.e., any member of the public could lawfully obtain the information by request or observation), as well as other unclassified information that has limited public distribution or access. Open source information also includes any information that may be used in an unclassified context without compromising national security or intelligence sources and methods. If the information is not publicly available, certain legal requirements relating to collection, retention, and dissemination may apply.
Of course, these sources have been used in the intelligence production process in the past. What is different now is a growing recognition that a more organized and focused effort must be made to take full advantage of open source materials ...
... ndexing/Retrieval Software
The documents retrieved from on-line searches are stored on the PC's local hard disk. To make full use of this information, it is important to be able to search these documents quickly.
A number of inexpensive (less than $500 retail price) programs are available which are designed to allow rapid searching of collections of documents stored on personal computers.
These programs generally employ one of two basic approaches to searching information on a computer. The simplest programs work like the search functions in a word processor. They scan each document looking for user-specified key words. These programs are very inexpensive (less than $50.00 retail price) but are slow when searching a large collection of documents.
More powerful programs begin by building an index containing a reference to every word in every document. New documents are added to the index when added to the database. Searches on an indexed database may require less than a few seconds even when thousands of documents are searched. These programs can be used to index locally generated correspondence and reports, documents retrieved from on-line systems and electronic mail messages ...
Full article (http://www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/usarinf2.html)